'RAGE' to have 22GB install on Xbox 360

John Carmack has revealed that the Xbox 360 version of RAGE will have an optional 22GB system install.

The Xbox 360 version will ship on three DVDs, with two discs dedicated to the game's single-player campaign and a third disc for RAGE's multiplayer content.

"On the 360 we don't have a partial install option; it's all or nothing, which is kind of unfortunate," Carmack said during his QuakeCon 2011 keynote speech. "It means you have to install 21/22GB of stuff, which takes a long time, but if you've got it and you play it on the 360 that's the way to go."

Past Xbox 360 titles to ship on multiple discs have given users the option to install each disc individually. RAGE will not have this partial install option, requiring users to either install the full 22GB from all three discs or to not install the game at all.

Carmack continued his speech to explain the performance benefit of installing the game.

"Once you get everything from memory that works pretty good, but if you're coming straight from the hard drive then the first time you walk into everything from the DVD or from the Blu-ray - even worse in terms of total latency time - you listen to that Blu-ray churning around as its pulling everything in," he said.